[rollei_list] Re: Is it Me or Has Traditional Common Courtesy Vanished

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:07:18PM -0400, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> The dropped email is a powerful technique one learns to de humanize ones
> foe. After you've not returned their email for several days they are reduced
> to drooling fools left to the devices of their own spiraling out of control
> imaginations. Then they just send you the thing for free maybe.
> 
> I do believe in etiquette and I believe one should err on the sake of
> niceness. Especially when all we've got is typed words in the shape of
> pixels on the screen!

You should bear in mind that just because you see pixels on your screen
showing a message you sent, you cannot assume that the message was
received on the other end.  75% of the messages I send to my daughter's
hotmail account never get there.  A smaller percentage is dropped by her
gmail account.  I verified in our server logs that the messages were
accepted by the recipient's servers, and in her mailboxes that they were
never delivered.

Marc's comment that not everybody checks his email every day is valid as
far as it goes, but checking your email does not ensure that the mail
was delivered for you to check at all.

The Shitty Mail Transfer Protocol cannot be depended on, and it is
irresponsible to assume the intended recipient received the message you
are expecting an answer to.
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